Exciting news! Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It and president of Sojourners magazine has started a new blog called God’s Politics. He’s invited a bunch of us to contribute to the blog, including yours truly.
Jim fired up the God’s Politics blog with a week-long exchange with Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coaltion, on the topic of "What Do Values Voters Value Most?" You can read the entire exchange by delving into the September archives of God’s Politics. In the following week, others including Amy Sullivan, Diana Butler Bass and Brian McLaren made their own contributions on the topic, also available in the archives. You can read my bit here.
Sister Helen
I enjoyed your post Sister and I was even more excited to learn that you have your own blog.
I appreciate your ideas, keep on sharing them!
Hi Sister, I am living in Quebec. I am a refugee from New Orleans. I moved from UNO to UMass Boston now at Universite de Montreal.
I am not a christian, so I am a bit biased. I find the American “left” to be quite accomodating to religion. There’s Barack Obama, Mariane Walsh(in Massachusetts), and a host of others who are left of center on social issues but religions. In Massachusetts, Mariane Walsh, an avid pro-life Irish Catholic Democrat also supports marriage equality.
In Quebec, people cannot even say a simple thank you to God in public life without people talking about “la laicite” secularism. As secular as I am, I feel that religious expression in public is OK.
Up here in Quebec, I am seen as one of those crazy Americans who’ll believe anything.
Maybe America is too religious. Maybe both America’s right and “left” are just completely out of step.
I consider myself a gay secular social-humanist. I am wiccan but attend a Unity church every now and then. I am pro-life, opposed to capital punishment, pro-universal healthcare, pro-marriage equality and I am in the NRA.
While there are good progressive catholics like you, there are even more who would have gay, pagan, socialists who support gay marriage like me burned at the stake.
Thanks for the information about Jim Wallis’ blog. I’ve added a link to it on my website; I already have yours linked. Keep up the good work.